Improvement in medical compounds



UNITED STATES PATEN'I'OFFIGE,

BENEDICT G. DU BETTE, OF KOSOIUSKO, MISSISSIPPI.

IMPEOVEMENT IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 216,317, dated June 10, 1879; application filed April 8, 1879.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENEDICT G. DU BETTE, of Kosciusko, in the county of Attala and State of Mississippi, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Medical Oompounds; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the "invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to certain improvements in medical compounds, forming a purgative and an anti-periodic; and to these ends it consists in the compounding certain ingredients known as harberry-bark, poplarbark, and Oregon grape-root, which may he prepared as a powder, or in the form of a solution or liquid, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In preparing my compoundI take barberrybark, in the proportion ofonehalf (5) to onefourth each of Oregon grape-root and poplar-bark, and compound the same either in the form of a powder or as a solution or liquid. In the preparation of the compound in the latter form, aquantity of alcohol is added thereto suflicient to form the powder into a solution. This mixture is permitted to percolate, say, five days, more or less, according to the quantity to be filtrated,after which the filtered mixture is bottled up ready for use or sale.

This is taken thirty (30) drops to a dose for y,

an adult.

The powder is administered in doses of half a Wine-glass.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The herein described medical com pound, compounded of barherry-bark, Oregon graperoot, and poplar-bark, in the proportions specified. i

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

BENEDICT GEORGE DU BETTE.

Witnesses:

THOMAS OOONN R CONNER, DAVID ORUMBLY WASSON. 

